3 2 1 comparison, violate the Fourth Amendment – your protection against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. For example, during the 2015 Baltimore riots, police scanned faces in the protest crowd and matched them in real time against the facial database. They used it to “monitor” the situation. That kind of surveillance makes us uneasy. And adding to that mistrust of what Big Brother is doing with all of this info is the fact that many agencies lack any kind of oversight or regulation with these databases. For example, some states, like Alabama and Tennessee, only allow the FBI to run facial- recognition searches. Other states, like Ohio and Florida, allow hundreds of state agencies to run these searches. You can’t get yourself out of a database. For many of us, the necessity of having a driver’s license puts us in the database whether we like it or not. But you can know and understand exactly who can use your face in a search and how.
How to Help Keep Big Brother From Putting You in a Lineup
There are three things to do... Understand what’s going on in your state . You can find your state on the interactive map, here . Make sure you understand exactly who can see your face in the database and look into instances of misuse. Also look for the last audit on the database procedures. Maryland, for instance, has not conducted an audit since the system launched in 2011. Write to your representatives . Point them to this report and urge them to regulate these databases and protect our privacy. You can look up how to get in touch with your state officials as well as your senators and representatives right here . Refer them to the Wiretap Act as a guideline for how to protect our privacy. Guard your privacy when it comes to real- time facial recognition . Even if you’re already in one database, these steps can help keep the government from putting you in another one... Facial-recognition technology measures the distance between features like the eyes, nose, and mouth. And we’re not talking about just Protecting privacy is so important to him that he dedicated a full section to it in his book, The Big Book of Retirement Secrets . In it, Doc shares more tips for safeguarding your family’s privacy as well as hundreds of other tips on health and wealth. To order your copy, simply click here .
Dr. David Eifrig worked in arbitrage and trading groups with major Wall Street investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, Chase Manhattan, and Yamaichi in Japan. In 1995, Dr. Eifrig retired fromWall Street, went to UNC-Chapel Hill medical school, and became an ophthalmologist. Today, he publishes a free daily letter on health and wealth that shows readers how to live a millionaire lifestyle at http:// healthandwealthbulletin.com .
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